Sino-foreign projects planned for district

Sino-foreign cooperation projects for innovation in the Dream Incubator of Overseas Chinese are expected to lay a solid foundation for the industrial park's development.

To be launched on Tuesday, as the DIOC is being oficially opened, these include a Sino-German project for the modern manufacturing industry, a Sino-Australian scientific innovation project, a Sino-British cooperative zone for emerging industries and a Sino-Israeli industrial park for the healthcare industry.

The Sino-German zone will target in-depth cooperation between the two countries' national strategies - Made in China 2025 and German Industry 4.0 - to develop modern manufacturing industries.

The Sino-Australian project highlights the development of new materials with grapheme as a breakthrough product.

The project with the Australia Technology and Investment Committee is planned as a model zone for Sino-Australian technological cooperation, attracting high-tech projects, research and development teams and skilled professionals from Australia and organizing bilateral exchanges in science and technology, trade, education and culture.

Australian-Chinese scientist Li Zheng has already established the Convergtel Technologies Co in the DIOC, focusing on industrializing cutting-edge robots, wireless communication and computer technologies.

The Sino-British cooperative project, planned for emerging industries, is intended to provide a platform for scientists and experts from both countries to conduct research and development, knowledge transfers and other exchanges; while the Sino-Israeli industrial park will focus on the healthcare industry.

In addition, a healthcare industrial park will be developed for cooperation between US and Chinese companies. It will mainly seek to attract companies from the United States that have advanced healthcare services, products and solutions.

The park will be jointly built by the China Council for International Investment Promotion, Genesis Rehab Service from the US, the Smart City Council and the Zengcheng Economic and Technological Development Zone.

"We will also join with Alibaba Group to use its advantages in Internet applications to promote the DIOC's development and will forge closer cooperative ties with Guangzhou-based Jinan University to expand international cooperation," said Liu Zonghui, deputy director of the zone's administrative committee.

(China Daily 12/22/2015 page7)